Following the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, General Stonewall Jackson established his winter headquarters at Moss Neck Manor, a stately…

Forty-one-year-old Robert Selden Garnett was a newly minted brigadier general in the Confederate army when he was sent to western Virginia in…

Richard Rowland Kirkland was just 17 years old when he enlisted as a private in the Camden Volunteers under the command of…

Enlisting in the Palo Alto Confederates in 1861 from his home in Palo Alto, Mississippi, at the age of fifteen, Andrew Martin…

A bit of Natchez, Mississippi history during Union occupation that conveniently gets swept under the rug, as it destroys the narrative of…

The Christmas that Americans celebrate today seems like a timeless weaving of custom and feeling beyond the reach of history. Yet the…